Another year is almost gone! As we enter December do you have “inner struggles” this month? So does everyone else you know. Sometimes we do our best and despite our best, and despite that, the return isn’t forthcoming.
We can all do many things well. When one or many of those is no longer serving you well – stop it and move on to something else. There are seasons of plenty and season of lack. The world and our lives are designed that way. Be cautious of how you view each season in life. You can have an attitude of “better” or an attitude of “bitter.” You can move on and “grow,” or you can stay stuck and “groan.”
All of us would love to “hold-on” to people, places, and things which; no longer serve us, no longer work for us, no longer give us joy, or even no longer give us peace in any one aspect of our lives.
Looking back over this past year, 2025. What brought you joy, helped you grow, informed you, made you wiser, served you in an area of life, and peace. Where did you go for a long weekend or on vacation and enjoyed it?
Let’s look back over the other side of this perspective. What or who frustrated you? What/who made you sad or uncomfortable? What/who made you think twice about working or being their friend? What or who stalled you in your growth plan? Who put a dark cloud over your life? What job brought you resentment in 2025?
What’s the point here you might be wondering? This is all about choice!
You have the power to make easy choices and hard choices based on your answers to those questions posed above. Yes, to get what you want there may be sacrifices involved and that too is your choice. You and your family may all have to choose to sacrifice something.
Everyone here reading this blog has had to pull off life’s freeway to handle family issues. Let’s face it each of us faces, family issues, health issues, financial issues, and work issues, which cause us to pull off.
Our natural response is one of two things. We either shrug or just accept it as the way life rolls. Or we immediately look for someone or something to blame. We neglect to stop and evaluate our role in our choices as a reason or our lack of adherence to boundaries set by law, our choice or a higher power’s boundaries which all have consequences.
The other thing that we need to see is that all these behaviors are “MODELING” life to our children, our peers, our neighbors, our fellow workers, and so on.
I have a challenge for you over this last month of 2025. Get your calendar out and look at how you might evaluate each item penned there.
Use a smiley emoji on the appointments and happy events that you participated in throughout 2025.
Use this emoji when you felt confused.
This sad emoji can represent those people, events or other appointments that did not elevate you in your life. Perhaps it is time to separate, release or plain stop interaction here.
These choices are all yours to make. No judgement here, just your opportunity to make some life altering decisions.
So, how do you feel about 2025? Yes, in case you did not know this, most people globally make their decisions based on “feelings!” One can argue all they want about this point but just look around you. How are those you know making decisions? What about you?
The clock is ticking down to midnight, what will 2026 look like for you?
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